It was a summer morning (or afternoon, I don't remember exactly) when we gathered around the boards. We were many and there were at least six groups formed.

It was clear to me that I wanted to be in the session that would be led by Toke Möller, one of the creators of the Flow Game™ in the 1990s and part of the group that, a couple of decades earlier, had organized the knowledge that we practice today through the_cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter– a set of tools and methods to facilitate conversations that matter and harvest the wisdom that emerges from these occasions. 

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That's how it went. We started playing, and at the time, I was worried about my finances. I didn't quite know how to generate the abundance that I felt I needed, living in an eco-village in the Northeast of Brazil, in a very different context from the megalopolis of São Paulo, where I was born and had lived until then. We took turns and we were drawing the cards, and receiving the contributions of the others. 

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Until Toke saw something in me that neither I nor anyone at that table had seen. Inspired by my question, by the cards of the game and by a greater wisdom that asked to pass through him, he said to me: "What are you still doing here? You are from the world. If you want, I welcome you as an apprentice ofArt of Hosting". 

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This left me in shock. Because living in Barcelona again had always been an idea that I had in the recesses of my mind and heart, because I was falling in love with theArt of Hosting, from which the Flow Game™ derives, and that Toke invited me to be an apprentice was an unexpected and very honorable recognition.   

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However, something in me made me feel unprepared for these changes and I tried to park the information that I had accessed in the game, put it in a drawer and keep it there in silence. It would flourish, yes, but I didn't know it at the time.

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Two years later, a crisis led me to leave the eco-village, finally come to Barcelona and do the training to become, with great enthusiasm, anhost(host, facilitator) of Flow Game™! And to live experiences of connection with myself that I have wanted for a long time, in all vital dimensions. 
 

It is from this internal place, of deep respect and gratitude for the existence of this tool, that I place myself at your service as the host of the Flow Game™ for you. So that your experience is exactly what you need at this moment, no more, no less. 

With love,

Vanessa A Ruiz